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Page 1: Non-Western Art History African Masks and Masqueradeshelenrindsberg.web.iglou.com/NWArt/AfricanArt_4_244.pdf · Non-Western Art History African Masks and Masquerades ... A masquerade

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Non-Western Art History

African Masks and Masquerades

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African Masks

Are not sculpture, they are part of a performance

The masks are spiritual beings from the otherworld

The masker is subsumed into the otherworld being who is now truly present.

Spirits are of ancestors or from nature and each has their own gestures and movements

Spirits command, manipulate and represent powerful spiritual, natural or social forces

Source: A History of Art in Africa, By Visona, Poynor, Cole, Harris, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Inc. 2001

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African Masquerades

A masquerade is played for an audience, activated by music, dance and dramatic action, sometimes with singing

Masquerades are part of a larger ritual, especially rituals of human passage - planting, harvest, initiation, weddings, funerals

Masquerades are danced to effect change in the community• Children into adults• Seedlings into productive crops• Sickness into health• Crime into judicial resolution• Elders into ancestors

Source: A History of Art in Africa, By Visona, Pyonor, Cole, Harris, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Inc. 2001

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Two Bwa Masks in Performance,1984, H: 7 feet,

Unknown Bwa Artist, Scan: Art History by Marilyn Stokstad

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Bwa Mask,1960, H: 8 feet,

Unknown Bwa Artist, Minneapolis Institute

of Art

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Female Dance Headdress,Early 20th century, H: 45 inches,

Unknown Baga Artist, Cincinnati Art Museum

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Senufo Funeral Masquerade, 1984, Unknown Senufo Artists, Photo by Anita J. Glaze, Scan: The History of Art in Africa,by Visona, Poynor, etc.

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Basinjom Mask and Gown,1972, H: 85 inches,

Unknown Ejagham Artist, Nigeria Scan: African Art by P. McCluskey

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Four Egungun Masqueraders, 1992, Unknown Yoruba Artists, Nigeria, Photo by Marilyn Houlberg,

Scan: The History of Art in Africa by Visona, Poynor, etc.

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Pair of Gelede Masqueraders Dancing,1970, Imeko, Nigeria, Photo: Eliot Elisofon,

Scan: African Art by P. McCluskey

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Gelede Mask, 1992, Unknown Yoruba Artist,

Photo by Elio Elisofon, Scan: Art Beyond The West

by O’Riley

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Gelede Mask: Male Wearing Glasses,20th century, H: 9.5 inches,Unknown Yoruba Artist, Scan: African Art by P. McCluskey

Click here for a video of a GeledeMasquerade:

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Dogon Maskers Wearing Kanaga Masks, 1959, Unknown Sanga Artists, Mali

Scan: A History of Art in Africa, Visona, Poynor, etc.

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Dogon Mask Ceremony, No Date,Unknown Photographer, Scan: randafricanart.com

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Two Dogon Kanaga Masks,2005, Joan and Lou Rose,

Web: ramblingrose.com

Click here for a video of Dogon Maskers:

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Two Dogon Stilt Walkers,2005, Joan and Lou Rose,

Web: ramblingrose.com

Click here for a video of Yacouba stilt walkers, Ivory Coast, 1993:

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This is the end of our presentation on African masks and masquerades.